March 2022 Issue Patricia Fara AI in the Sky The End of Astronauts: Why Robots are the Future of Exploration By Donald Goldsmith and Martin Rees LR
November 2020 Issue Andrew Crumey Red but Not Dead The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World By Sarah Stewart Johnson LR
May 2020 Issue John Gribbin She Broke the Galactic Ceiling What Stars are Made Of: The Life of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin By Donovan Moore LR
April 2001 Issue Sebastian Shakespeare Merlin of Mortlake The Queen's Conjuror: The Science and Magic of Dr Dee By Benjamin Woolley LR
February 2017 Issue John Gribbin Life on Mars? Aliens: Science Asks – Is Anyone Out There? By Jim Al-Khalili (ed) All These Worlds Are Yours: The Scientific Search for Alien Life By Jon Willis LR
February 2017 Issue Rebekah Higgitt Queens of the Night The Glass Universe: The Hidden History of the Women Who Took the Measure of the Stars By Dava Sobel LR
February 2016 Issue John Gribbin Tyrannosaurus, Ex Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe By Lisa Randall LR
December 2007 Issue Adam LeBor Drunk Again, Khayyam? Omar Khayyam: Poet, Rebel, Astronomer By Hazhir Teimourian LR
June 2012 Issue Patricia Fara Planetspotting Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens By Andrea Wulf LR
March 2013 Issue Sumit Paul-Choudhury Hearts of Darkness Gravity's Engines: The Other Side of Black Holes By Caleb Scharf LR
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